Science Quiz

DATE: 25TH FEBRUARY, 2020
QUIZ MASTERS:
Dr. Sanjib Deuri
Parthapratim Choudhury

RULES WILL GO ON ALONG WITH
THE SIX ROUNDS.
BUT…
WE HAVE SIX ROUNDS
SIX QUESTIONS EACH…
POUNCE IN EVERY ROUND….
NO BOUNCE…….
DECISION OF THE Q.M. IS FINAL…

It is 23 feet 8 inches (7.2 meters) high
with 16 inches diameter that was
constructed by a "King Chandra",
probably Chandragupta II. It is famous
for the rust-resistant composition of the
metals used in its construction.
What ?

IMITATION GAME ,
BIOPIC OF ALAN
TURING.

Which species is declared as
the most important living
species on this planet in the
most recent meeting of the
Royal Geographical Society of
London, the Earthwatch
Institute

ISABELLE DINOIRE ,
THE FIRST PERSON
TO HAVE PARTIAL
FACE TRANSPLANT

The Audience
question is…….

Ideonella sakaiensis was first
identified in 2016 by a team of
researchers led by Kohei Oda
of Kyoto Institute of
Technology and Kenji Miyamoto
of Keio University .
What is special about
Ideonella sakaiensis ?

Bacterium capable
of breaking down and
consuming the plastic
poly(ethylene
terephthalate) (PET) as a
sole carbon and energy
source.

Remember Blu from
the movie Rio? The
blue macaw from the
movie Rio who thought
that he was the last of
his species?
Why he is in news
recently?

Well, his nightmare has
come to life and the
blue macaw parrots,
who were declared
endangered about
seven years ago, are
now officially extinct
in the wild. Only a few
remains in captivity.

In 1895 He generated 5mm
electromagnetic waves, 60GHz,
before instruments even evolved to
measure frequencies that low. The
millimetre wave that He worked on
is the backbone of developing
5GCommunication technology.
Who is He ?

Part of
whose
Patent
Application ?

A.G. Bell’s
Patent
application
for
Telephone.

She has been called "the most
famous 19th-century woman
inventor". She was working in a X
factory when she devised a new way
to put together the X. Invented and
Patented the machine and changed
our lives.
Who is She?
What is X ?

• She was a pioneer in the visual presentation of
information and statistical graphics,
particularly Pie Diagrams.
• She discovered the Polar Area Diagram of Data
Representation.
•In 1874 she became an honorary member of
the American Statistical Association.
• She made a comprehensive statistical study
of sanitation in Indian rural life and was the
leading figure in the introduction of improved
medical care and public health service in India.
•Her recommendations in Healthcare and
Sanitation Increased the average life
expectancy of People by 20 Years
•Identify…..

This Instrumental
“Contact Lost” by
Deep Purple is
dedicated to which
tragedy ?

Wave
propagation of
2004 Tsunami.

Marie Curie’s
Speech after
receiving Nobel
in 1911

Earliest example of which
common Instrument ?

On 6 November 1915, a Reuters news
agency report from London had
declared that 1915 Nobel Prize in
Physics is awarded to X and Y;
however, on 15 November, a Reuters
story from Stockholm stated the prize
that year was being awarded to Sir
William Henry Bragg and William
Lawrence Bragg.
X and Y Never got the Nobel but
regarded as the top Scientists who
deserved a Nobel.

X- Thomas Alva Edison
Y- Nicola Tesla.

In the year 1072 AD, X documented
the most accurate year length ever
calculated as 365.2422 days – a
figure still accurate enough for most
purposes in the modern world. X was
an astronomer, astrologer, physician,
philosopher, and mathematician.
His poetry is better known in the
West than any other non-Western
poet..
Identify.....

X was never nominated for a Nobel
Prize. Her work was crucial in the
discovery of DNA's double helical
structure, which along with
subsequent related work led to
Francis Crick, James Watson, and
Maurice Wilkins being awarded a
Nobel Prize in 1962. Identify X.

Charles Richard Drew pioneered
this in America. Upendranath
Brahmachari organized this in
Calcutta, which was first of its
kind in India and second in the
world. What ?

"The Little Box Challenge" was a
competition launched by Google &
IEEE in 2014. This offers a million
dollars to anyone who invents the
smallest 'little box', which, if it
comes through will significantly
affect the economics of such
things as electric cars and
household equipment. 'Little box'
refers to miniaturizing what kind
of electrical equipment?

The following two lines capture a
historically famous scientific
debate:
X: “God does not play dice”
Y: “X, stop telling God what to do”
Identify X and Y.

X: Albert Einstein
Y:Niels Bohr

“The Vitruvian Man”-a famous
drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.
This was chosen as the logo of which
scientific project ?

It remains the world's largest
collaborative biological project. It was
formally launched in 1990 and was
declared complete on April 14, 2003.

 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, January 28, 1986
Christa McAuliffe, high school teacher , who would have
been the first teacher in space
 Richard Feynman, one of the members of Investigation
Commission (Rogers Commission) .
 O-Ring failure was the cause of accident. The O-rings
had not been tested at temperatures below 10 °C.

This book was met with fierce opposition
by chemical companies, but it brought
about many changes. It forced a change in
the United States' national pesticide
policy, led to a nationwide ban on DDT ,
and helped to inspire an environmental
movement. Identify the book and the
author.

"Gravity" is a 2013 science fiction
thriller directed by Alfonso Cuaron and
starring George Clooney and Sandra
Bullock. The film has been much
talked about for its depiction of an
accident during a space mission. The
film has a running time of 90 minutes -
this coincides with the amount of time
it takes for what object referenced in
the film to orbit once around the
earth?

International Space Station (ISS)

These were proposed by Henri
Poincaré in 1905 and predicted in
1916 by Albert Einstein on the
basis of his general theory of
relativity. Rainer Weiss, Kip
Thorne and Barry Barish detected
them directly and got the Nobel
prize in Physics in 2017. What ?

This postage stamp commemorates a Nobel
prize. Identify the Laureate and the
contribution for which he was awarded the
prize.

Alexander Fleming and discovery of
penicillin

This Google Doodle was created on International
Women's Day in 2017 to honour an English
mathematician & the world’s first computer programmer.
Who is she?

Have a look at these Koala memes. Behind each
meme there is an interesting Koala fact
What is the Koala fact behind each meme.

Koala feeds very selectively on the
leaves of certain eucalyptus trees.
 Koala sleeps about 20 hours a day.

Broken cells releases amino acid sulfoxides
which subsequently forms sulfenic acid.
Enzymes get mixed with sulfenic acid
to produce propanethiol-S-oxide which
move upwards and reacts with water to
produce sulfuric acid. With what would you
like to connect this chemistry?

Which modern day term was coined from the name of
Persian Mathematician Muhmmad ibn Musa al
Khwarizmi ?

Conversations between Salviati, Sagredo
and Simplicio is the content of which
famous scientific masterpiece?

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World
Systems by Galileo Galilei

According to The Daily Telegraph it is one of
the most prestigious academic posts in the
world. Its former holders include Sir Isaac
Newton, Charles Babbage, George
Stokes, Paul Dirac and Stephen Hawking.
Current holder of this position is Michael
Cates. About what am I talking?

Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
in the University of Cambridge

Albert Einstein kept pictures of three great
scientists on his study wall.
One is done. Who are the other two?

Michael Faraday and J C Maxwell

Subhash Mukhopadhyay was a scientist, physician.
 Kanupriya Agarwal (Durga) was the world's second and
India's first child using in-vitro fertilization
 His life and death inspired the Hindi movie Ek Doctor Ki
Maut, directed by Tapan Sinha.
Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay was harassed by the then West
Bengal state government and Indian Government and not
allowed to share his achievements with the international
scientific community. Dejected, he committed suicide on 19
June 1981.

Identify this historic problem

Königsberg bridge problem
The problem was to devise a walk through
the city that would cross each of those
bridges once and only once. Its negative
resolution by Leonhard Euler in 1736 laid the
foundations of graph theory and prefigured
the idea of topology.

She is India’s First Woman Botanist who played a
great role in restructuring Calcutta’s Botanical
Survey of India in 1951 on the request of former
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. She was
specialized in cytogenetics and her research work
revolved around analyzing chromosome numbers
in a variety of garden plants at England. In honor
of her remarkable contribution in the field of plant
science – two Indian Plant breeders who hail from
Kodaikanal, have named a new Rose variety in her
name. Identify this pioneer woman scientist.

This day is celebrated annually on
October 23 from 6.02 am to 6.02 pm.
What day is this?

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